I Quotes
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“I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.”
“I definitely wouldn't be the performer I am today if the gay audience had not been so supportive of me as a complete unknown.”
“I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.”
“I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.”
“I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.”
“I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write about it in a general way and make metaphors. Like "I'm the wolf and you are the moon ".”
“I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there.”
“I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue.”
“I definitely, at times, felt the pressures of life similar to the pressures anyone would feel growing up. The only difference was that maybe more people were aware of mine. But, if anything, I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.”
“I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.”
“I deflate quicker than a terrible Patriots joke.”
Source: Strong Side
“I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me.”
“I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.”
Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
“I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.”
“I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.”
“I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that!”
“I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.”
“I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.”
“I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.”
“I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials”
“I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.”
“I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'”
“I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it - atheists or Christians?”
“I defy you, Shadowhunters. I mock you with my sugar cravings.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”
“I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is use my body to please others. I was sick and alone with no references, friends, family, or money. I was so weak from hunger that even a beggar stole your himation from me while I lay on the ground, wanting to die and unable to stop him from taking it. So don’t come here now with your disdainful eyes and look at me like I’m beneath you. I don’t need your charity and I don’t need your pity. I know exactly what you see when you look at me. (Acheron)”
“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“I deliberate on whether the morning would bring a golden sun, melting the thick snow at the foot of the house, turning ice to rivulets down the stone steps. Or if winter would keep its hold, the chill climbing steadily up the windows, pressing cold fingers against the glass, trying to find its way inside.
I wondered if the frost would cling to the dubstep or if it had already settled within.”
“I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.”
Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious
“I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.”
“I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.”
“I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.”
“I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.”
“I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.”
“I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.”
“I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.”
“I deliberately never read about films before I see them.”
“I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well.”
“I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.”
“I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.”
“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”
“I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.”
“I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.”
“I delight in helping to liberate souls. I don’t like suffering. However suffering reminds me of the work I need to do to help people. Liberating individuals from their suffering is my primary motivation. Of course, the reasons for suffering are as personal and varied as one’s voice or thoughts. Humankind needs to understand that suffering is just (and people accept it because of higher reasons) and that no one is a victim. ~ Kuan Yin”
Source: Kuan Yin Buddhism:: The Kuan Yin Parables, Visitations and Teachings
“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.”
“I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“I delight in what I fear.”
“I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.”
Source: The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...
“I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism.”